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With your help already, we've set up a babies home for up to 25 abandoned babies in Uganda. Our aim is to find every one of our children a loving Ugandan family within six months of their arrival. This Christmas we need YOUR support to keep our Home running and to give our babies a safe and happy future. Your gift can make a real difference. www.childsifoundation.myshopify.com

This is the story of how, with your support, Child's i Foundation has changed the lives of one family. They have been an inspiration to all of us who have been privileged enough to meet them and it has been our honour to work with them. Please support WORLD AIDS DAY on December 1st 2010

Our wonderful volunteer Georgina and amazing nursery teacher Christine teach some of the older kids about colours... using lots of paint!

It has been a busy six months for Child's i Foundation. We currently have 25 babies in our care and all our projects are running at full steam. Thank you for your Love, Time and Money, we would not exist without you.

Prevention being better than cure, we are working to stop babies being abandoned in the first place, by supporting vulnerable mothers.

Back in August the wonderful supporters of Child's i Foundation raised a staggering £10,000 in only 38 hours to pay for Joey's life-saving heart surgery. Yesterday a very happy and healthy little boy popped into Malaika Babies home to say hello.

After reuniting one of our babies with his father our amazing Family Placement Social Workers took the little boy to meet his extended family. Please help Child's i Foundation to place more vulnerable and abandoned babies in loving families - Visit www.childsifoundation.org

Child's i Foundation have received a wonderful donation of Johnson's baby products, which will supply both our Malaika Care Babies Home and Malaika Prevention mother and baby centre for a whole year. Thank you to Johnson and Johnson for such a generous donation.

Malaika Prevention, our mother and baby centre, gives vulnerable mothers the support they need to keep their children. We need a new manager for this amazing project so if you think you have the necessary skills please send your CV to Lucy@childsifoundation.org

In Uganda poverty, disease and violence are rife – which leads to hundreds of children being abandoned every year. Child’s i Foundation is helping solve this endemic problem. Our mother and baby centre gives vulnerable mothers the support they need to keep their children; our transitional home and family support centre provides quality short-term care for babies; while our placement programme ensures every child in our care grows up in a loving family in Uganda.

David Wartnaby is a Radio Producer and TV Announcer from the UK. He's volunteering with Child's i Foundation in Kampala helping to set up a TV and radio campaign to promote adoption.

On Sat 11th September, a storm in Kampala caused chaos at Malaika Babies home.

Joey returns home to his family after life saving heart surgery. A huge thank you to our worldwide community of supporters, who raised an amazing £10,000 in only 38 hours to fund Joey's operation.

On the 29th of August little Joey flew home from Johannesburg after receiving vital heart surgery. Thank you to everyone who helped in saving his life.

Another one of our beautiful babies takes his first steps!

Another one of our beautiful babies takes his first steps!

Child's I invite local organisations and supporters to Malaika Babies Home to find out what services we offer. It's important we make sure people understand that we aren't just running an orphanage, this is short term care for babies with the aim of getting them back with their families (or finding them a new one) as soon as possible.

Here's how £10,000 was raised in 38 hours to save one special little boys life.

Two weeks ago our first baby was adopted. Joey had been abandoned in a taxi but after 6 weeks in the care of CiF we found him new parents. This evening Joey was diagnosed with a critical heart defect and no-one in East Africa has the skills to operate on him. Joey needs to be sent to either the UK or India within the next 48 hours or he will not survive. Please go to http://www.justgiving.com/Save-Joeys-Life

The team at Malaika Babies Home head to the hospital to collect an abandoned baby. He is in good health and sleeps soundly back at the home. Two days later he is reunited with his mother and after an emotional re-union they are now living together at Malaika House,our baby abandonment prevention centre.

Our two eldest boys have just been given a fabulous new toy, see how much your donations mean to to us (and the boys!)

Latest update from Child's i Foundation in Uganda and things are moving at a very fast pace. We are breaking land-speed records to make sure we get the home up and running in 8 weeks and need your help!

Lucy and the Team go and visit Oasis Uganda which is a Ugandan charity helping to give women vital skills to sustain themselves.

Happy New Year! It’s 2010 and we’re very excited about getting this baby abandonment project up and running! Here’s our project director with a quick update...

For Day 1 of planning our Prevention Programme, Lucy and Megan visit Home Start Uganda to find out more about how the two organisations can help each other. To find out more, visit http://childsifoundation.org or follow us on http://twitter.com/childsi

Lucy and head social worker, Megan, meet with Home Start Uganda.

It's our second week in Uganda, and we've started kitting out the house, where we'll be staying for a while until we open the home early next year. Also, Megan, our head social worker, has joined us.

After a year of your time, love and money - Child's i Foundation have arrived in Uganda to start the second phase of our child abandonment project. To find out more about our work, and how you can get involved visit http://childsifoundation.org or follow us on http://twitter.com/childsi

Philip Glenister, from Life on Mars, introduces you to the Child's i Foundation - a social charity supporting orphaned children in Uganda. We ask for 168 seconds of your time to find out more.

All that is left to say is Thank You to everyone that has been involved in helping us on our journey so far, including all of our supporters. Thanks for following our progress and all of your comments and questions. Our planning trip ends here and our fundraising drive starts as we aim to return to Kampala permanently in October.

It is Day 18 and the CiF team go back to visit the mothers supported by Home Start Uganda. As well as friendship and advice, HomeStart volunteers also teach the mothers how to make paper necklaces and mats out of straws to generate income. Lucy visits Lucy, Miriam and Esther to see how they are getting on and does a spot of buying for the Undress For Uganda event in aid of Child's i Foundation.

It is Day 17 and with only a couple of days left of the Uganda Planning trip the Team visit Cherish Uganda, a project in Entebbe caring for orphans living with HIV/AIDS. The team are given some invaluable advice from Steve an architect who has been designing sustainable eco- friendly initiatives including compost toilets, rainwater harvesting, solar powered electricity and water heating and bio-sand filters. Over the past couple of years they have learnt from trail and error and happy to share their experiences and knowledge with Child's i Foundation.

It is Day 16 and Lucy and the team have spent the day looking at property around Kampala. CiF plan to rent a temporary home for abandoned babies' in October so today was great to see what we could get for our money.

Day 15 and Bank Holiday in Uganda. Everyone has closed for the weekend so Lucy and Saff strolled down to the taxi park in the rain with a Flip Camera to show supporters what it is like in Kampala and see firsthand the taxi park where babies are abandoned.

Today we visited Mulago hospital - one of our new partners in Uganda. The situation is bleak. We met 3 children who had been abandoned at the hospital. All the Homes are at capacity so they have nowhere to go. The more we understand, the more critical our foundation becomes and the more we realise how desperately we need to start fundraising.

It's Saffron, our Producer / Director's turn to get in front of the camera. She tells us a bit about her experience out in Uganda and how she thinks the project has been doing so far.

Lucy talks us through the project's progress as the planning trip reaches it's halfway mark. Lucy is pleased that Brian has come round to her thinking and that she has his seal of approval as a social work expert. Brian and Lucy have finalised the model for the project and she talks us through the 3 main areas the project will be focusing on, the babies home, prevention of abandonment and fostering babies.

After 10 days of meetings with families, social workers and government officials in Uganda, social work adviser Brian talks frankly about his journey of discovery. The problem of abandonment is so appalling that different solutions are required. After witnessing the plight firsthand, Brian subscribes to establishing a short term centre providing top quality care for abandoned babies but with only 4 days to go the team still have a lot to do before Brian gets on the plane for the UK

Day 8 of the planning trip and Lucy and Brian visit their partner Hope For Children's project in Namowongo slums. Almost 2,000 people living on a rubbish dump with no water or sanitation. Hope For Children sponsor 108 children and provide much needed education, medical care and a healthy meal a day.

It is Day 7 and after a week of meetings and research Lucy answers a very important question from a supporter about whether our project is taking into account the complexities of the community and culture. Lucy explains this fact finding trip is all about listening to people and only once the team have spoken to social workers, existing charities, probation officers. nurses, doctors and most importantly mothers themselves we will, as a community, make a decision on the final project.

Today is day 6 and Lucy and Brian head off into the Ugandan countryside to visit a project that helps young pregnant girls, Waakisa Ministries. They have a tour round the project with the project administrator Damalia and Lucy is shocked to hear that the youngest girl there is 13. There are many reasons for these young pregnancies, ****, incest and shockingly HIV. Waakisa helps young pregnant girls to be rehabilitated back to their families once they have given birth. This project has been really successful in Uganda and Lucy is amazed at what they have managed to achieve which gives her hope for the future.

Lucy heads out with a volunteer from Homestart Uganda an organisation that provides emotional and practical support to vulnerable mothers. She visits a young mother Ruth who without the support of Homestart may well have abandoned her baby as she had no one to turn to. Ruth is one of the many mothers that Esther the Homestart volunteer supports in the local communities. Lucy comments on how the support has made such a difference in keeping a mother and baby together as they should be. Childs I will hopefully be working in partnership with Homestart so as well as helping abandoned babies they will also be able to prevent babies being abandoned in the first place.

Lucy and Brian meet up with a group of Ugandan mothers to talk to them about the challenges they face in a bid to understand why some mothers might be forced to abandon their babies. After working for years at Sanyu babies home Lucy has never before spoken to a mother about the reasons why they might consider abandonment. The mothers they meet are incredibly strong women but in great need of support. Lucy concludes that the way forward is to work in partnership with an existing charity to help provide support to the mothers as well as look after abandoned babies.

Lucy and Brian smarten up to go and meet with the British High Commissioner of Uganda. It's a very positive meeting, with the Commissioner being very impressed with their approach to starting up a charity in Uganda. He also gives them some useful contacts, so both Brian and Lucy feel they are on the right track. Still a long way to go but on the right track!

It's Day 2 and Lucy and Brian meet with Isabel Booth the director of Families for Children. They talk about fostering in Uganda and working in partnership with Families for Children. Both Brian and Lucy feel the meeting has been positive, it's great to be in Uganda talking to the people that matter and learning more.

Arrival into Sanyu Babies Home in Kampala, Uganda, Day 1 of the planning trip. Lucy is reunited with the staff and feels like she is back in her true home. She also discovers that the babies home is full and she has never seen so many sick babies in the home. Sanyu are doing the best they can. It's only Day one but it feels like Day 2!

We're not packed, missing half our kit and still have the mother of all to-do lists and in 24 hours we'll be on a plane to Uganda to commence our planning trip. We want you to join us so please watch our daily updates and send us your comments and questions.

The CiF Team are off on a fact finding trip to Uganda and we need you to join us on our journey. Together as a community we will make our promise a reality.